Beyond the Visible and the Material: The Amerindianization of Society in the Work of Peter Rivière

Type

Book

Authors

Rival ( Laura M. Rival )

Whitehead ( Neil L. Whitehead )

ISBN 10

0199244766

ISBN 13

9780199244768

Tags

South America, Social Sciences, Cultural, Latin America, Anthropology

Description

Focusing on the anthropological development of Amazonia, this volume explores the legacy of Peter Rivière, a recently retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford. An international group of leading specialists contributes to the substantial and growing body of Amazonian ethnography, discussing topics that include kinship and genealogy, the village as a unit of ethnographic observation, the human body in political and social processes, and gender relationships as aspects of political cosmological thinking. - from Amzon

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